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Small Society Lotteries

Society lotteries are lotteries promoted for the benefit of a non-commercial society. A society is non-commercial if it is established and conducted:

for charitable purposes

for the purpose of enabling participation in, or supporting, sport, athletics or a cultural activity or

for any other non-commercial purpose other than that of private gain

Societies who run small society lotteries, that is to say lotteries which are not large lotteries (essentially those in which £20,000 (or less) worth of tickets are put on sale and where the society's aggregate proceeds from lotteries do not exceed £250,000 a year) may operate without a Gambling Commission licence provided they register with Stratford-on-Avon District Council.

The initial registration fee is £40 with an annual fee of £20 to maintain the registration. The annual fee must be paid within the period of two months which ends immediately before each anniversary of the registration.